by Herman Manson (@marklives) Our annual poll of South Africa’s top agency executives has already revealed which agencies, agency leaders and creatives are most admired by regional peers. Today, we reveal the results of our national poll, which dispensed with regional boundaries and asked execs to nominate their choice of their most-admired peers, irrespective of where in the country they are based.
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Loeries winners 2014: Sunday & Saturday evening #loeries
by MarkLives (@marklives) Here is the winners’ list for the second evening of the 2014 Loerie Awards (held on Sunday, 21 September 2014). Congratulations to all the winners. Please note that the list below includes those awarded on Saturday night as well.
The ‘peculiar’ radio habits of Kenyans
a The Africa Annual feature by Carole Kimutai (@CaroleKimutai) Radio is one of the most powerful media in Africa — it is relatively inexpensive to set up, it can be customised for regions in terms of language, and it is ubiquitous.
Cannes Lions 2014: Grand Prix, gold for SA
The International Festival of Creativity, Cannes Lions, has announced the winners in the Cyber, Design, Product Design, Press and Radio Lions categories, with Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg taking the Grand Prix and three Gold Campaign Lions in the Radio category for its campaign ‘Teleconference’, ‘Kids Party’ and ‘Enrique Concert’, created for Lucozade.
Ad of the week with Oresti Patricios – State of the Nation #brothersunite
Near the Eastern Cape in town of Gcuwa, which used to be known as Butterworth, a 110-year-old, partially-sighted woman is struggling to come to terms with a brutal attack that was perpetrated against her on the night of Saturday 09 February 2013.
Daily Dispatch reported recently that the aged grandmother was alone, sleeping in her mud home in the village of Jojweni when she was raped. “I was sleeping when the man entered my house,” said the granny. “He did not say a word. I just felt his hand reach over my left leg and he pulled me from my bed to the floor. I hit my head against the cement and I started screaming and asked him what he was doing. By then he was on top of me and he put his left hand on my mouth as he used his other hand to undress me,” the grandmother to 21 children, and great-grandmother to six more told Daily Dispatch journalist Zwanga Mukhuthu.
The attacker fled when the grandmother’s family came home. Upon finding her the family told the newspaper that the elderly woman was trembling with fear and shock. “I have lost my appetite, my heart is heavy and I constantly feel like throwing up,” the granny told Mukhuthu. “The medication from the hospital makes me sick,” she added.
The terrible story which featured in Daily Dispatch last week is no anomaly. If you follow the news closely, as I do, your heart is likely to be broken daily with stories of rape committed against our sisters, our mothers, our children; and at times even our brothers or fathers.
Tech Law: Content piracy and a panicked industry
by Paul Jacobson (@pauljacobson) We’re so accustomed to the term “content piracy” in the context of copyright infringement that we just accept that it is an appropriate term for what is going on.
Design Indaba 2012: Where it’s at
by Herman Manson. Cape Town is gearing up to host one of the world’s premier design conferences – the 2012 Design Indaba. DI regular and Pentagram partner Michael Bierut will MC this year’s, event alongside Michelle Constant and Khaya Dlanga.